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+!title Monty Python's Flying Circus (sketches)
!vdir P/Monty Python's Flying Circus (sketches)
+!explen 30:10/10%
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!season 1
+
2 Whither Canada?
‘It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’; Famous deaths
Italian Lesson
Arthur ‘Two-Sheds’ Jackson
Picasso/cycling race
The funniest joke in the world
+
4 Sex and Violence
Flying sheep
French lecture on sheep-aircraft
The wrestling epilogue
Cartoon – Cowboys, baby carriage and the musical statue
The mouse problem
+
5 How to Recognize Different Types of Tree from Quite a Long Way Away
- Court scene (witness i coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
+ Court scene (witness in coffin/Cardinal Richelieu)
The larch
Bicycle Repair Man
Children's stories
Stolen newsreader
Children's interview
Nudge nudge
+
6 Owl-Stretching Time
Live from the Cardiff Rooms, Libya/Song (‘And Did Those Feet’)
Art gallery
Cartoon – Changing on the beach
Rustic monologue
Secret Service dentists
+
7 Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
Confuse-a-Cat
The smuggler
Silly job interview
Careers advisory board
Burglar/encyclopædia salesman
+
8 It's the Arts
Caption costs
Cartoon – Autograph/Introduction to ‘It's the Arts’
- Johann Gombolputty … von Hauptkopf of Ulm
+ Johann Gombolputty… von Hauptkopf of Ulm
Cartoon – Censored
Non-illegal robbery
Vox pops
A Scotsman on a horse/Young Lochinvar
Cartoon – Vicious baby carriage
Twentieth-Century Vole (Irving C. Saltzberg)
+
16 You're No Fun Any More
Camel spotting
Cartoon – Band concert
Science fiction sketch: Man turns into Scotsman
Police station
Blancmanges playing tennis
+
2 Full Frontal Nudity
Vox pops on nudity and the permissive society
Army protection racket
Dead parrot
The flasher
Hell's Grannies
+
4 The Ant, an Introduction
Llamas
A man with a tape recorder up his nose
The refreshment room at Bletchley (Kenny Lust introduction)
Hunting film
The visitors
+
5 Untitled
Walk-on part in sketch
Bank robber (lingerie shop)
Letters to ‘Daily Mirror’
Strangers in the night
Cartoon – Animals eating
+
6 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom
Letter (lavatorial humour); Cartoon – More lavatorial humour
The Battle of Trafalgar
Batley Townswomen's Guild presents the Battle of Pearl Harbour
Undertakers film
+
7 The Naked Ant
A signal box somewhere near Hove
Falling from building
Cartoon – Smoking a pipe
Ken Shabby
How far can a minister fall? (Party political broadcast by the Woody Party)
+
8 Intermission
Cartoon – Intermission
Restaurant (abuse/cannibalism)
Me Doctor
Historical impersonations
Cartoon – Historical impersonations
- Quiz progamme – ‘Wishes’
+ Quiz programme – ‘Wishes’
Police fairy stories
‘Probe-around’ on crime
Stonehenge
Psychiatry – silly sketch
Operating theatre (squatters)
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!season 2
+
2 ‘Face the Press’
‘Face the Press’
New cooker sketch
Cartoon – Flying European monarchs, shaving; Tobacconists (prostitute advert)
The Ministry of Silly Walks
The Piranha brothers (Ethel the Frog)
+
4 The Spanish Inquisition
Man-powered flight
The Spanish Inquisition
‘Julius Cæsar’ on an Aldis lamp
Court scene (charades)
The Spanish Inquisition on a bus
+
5 Déjà Vu
A bishop rehearsing
Flying lessons
Psychiatrist milkman
Complaints
Déjà vu
+
6 The Buzz Aldrin Show
Cartoon – Metamorphosis
Architect sketch
After-shave (less naughty chemist)
Vox pops
Police Constable Pan-Am
+
7 Live from the Grill-o-mat
Live from the Grill-o-mat snack bar, Paignton
‘Blackmail’
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Cartoon – Piggy bank hunting
The man who is alternately rude and polite
- Docuemntary on boxer (Ken Clean-Air System)
+ Documentary on boxer (Ken Clean-Air System)
Host on a bus
+
8 It's a Living
‘It's a Living’
The time on BBC 1
Registry office (marriage)
Cartoon – The prince and the black spot
Election Night Special (Silly and Sensible parties)
+
16 The Attila the Hun Show
‘The Attila the Hun Show’
Attila the Nun
Test match
The Epsom furniture race
‘Take Your Pick’ (‘Spot the Brain Cell’)
+
2 Archæology Today
Trailer (BBC autumn shows)
Cartoon – Archæology
Michelangelo
Colin Mozart (ratcatcher)
Judges again
+
4 How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body
‘How to Recognize Different Parts of the Body’
Bruces
There's been a murder
Europolice Song Contest
‘Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong’ (song)
+
5 Scott of the Antarctic
French subtitled film (‘La Fromage Grande’)
Scott of the Antarctic
Scott of the Sahara
Cartoon – Conrad Poohs and his dancing teeth
Fish licence
- Derby Coucil v. All Blacks rugby match
- Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournebouth Gynæcologists
+ Derby Council v. All Blacks rugby match
+ Long John Silver Impersonators v. Bournemouth Gynæcologists
+
6 How Not to Be Seen
Conquistador coffee campaign
- Rpeeating groove
+ Repeating groove
Ramsay MacDonald striptease
Job hunter
Cartoon – Chinese communist conspiracy, Crelm toothpaste, Shrill petrol
Agatha Christie sketch (railway timetables)
- Mr Nevlle Shunt
+ Mr Neville Shunt
Film director (teeth)
City gents vox pops
‘Crackpot Religions Ltd’
Interview in filing cabinet
‘Yummy yummy’
Monty Python's Flying Circus again in thirty seconds
+
7 Spam
‘The Black Eagle’
Dirty Hungarian phrasebook
Cartoon – Hamlet linking Gumby flowers
Gumby flower arranging
Spam
+
8 Royal Episode 13
The queen will be watching
Coal mine (historical argument)
Lifeboat (cannibalism)
Undertaker's sketch
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!season 3
+
2 Whicker's World
Court scene – multiple murderer
Cartoon – Detectives examine prisoner
Stock Exchange report
Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jean-Paul Sartre
Whicker Island
+
4 Mr. and Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular
Emigration from Surbiton to Hounslow
Schoolboys' Life Assurance Company
The BBC is short of money
Puss in Boots
‘It's’ (chat show)
+
5 The Money Programme
‘The Money Programme’
‘There is nothing quite so wonderful as money’ (song)
Hitting on the head lessons
Inspector Flying Fox of the Yard
One more minute of Monty Python's Flying Circus
+
6 Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror
‘Blood, Devastation, Death, War and Horror’
The man who speaks in anagrams
Neurotic announcers
The news with Richard Baker (vision only)
‘The Pantomime Hose is a Secret Agent Film’
+
7 The All-England Summarize Proust Competition
Summarize Proust Competition
Everest climbed by hairdressers
Cartoon – Communist revolutions
Language laboratory
Travel agent; Watney's Red Barrel
- Theory on Brotosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)
+ Theory on Brontosauruses by Anne Elk (Miss)
+
8 The War Against Pornography
Tory Housewives Clean-up Campaign
Gumby brain specialist
Cartoon – Art appreciation
- Mulluscs – ‘live’ TV documentary
+ Molluscs – ‘live’ TV documentary
The Minister for Not Listening to People
- Tuesday docmentary/children's story/party political broadcast
- Aplogy (politicians)
+ Tuesday documentary/children's story/party political broadcast
+ Apology (politicians)
Expedition to Lake Pahoe
The silliest interview we've ever had
The silliest sketch we've ever done
+
16 Salad Days
Biggles dictates a letter
Cartoon – Flying sheep, traffic accidents
Apology
The news with Richard Baker
Seashore interlude film
+
2 The Cycling Tour
Mr Pither
Clodagh Rogers
Smolensk
Bingo-crazed Chinese
Cartoon – ‘Jack in a Box’
+
4 The Nude Organist
Bomb on plane
A naked man
- Ten seonds of sex
+ Ten seconds of sex
Housing project built by characters from nineteenth-century English literature
- M1 interhange built by characters from ‘Paradise Lost’
+ M1 interchange built by characters from ‘Paradise Lost’
Mystico and Janet – flats built by hypnosis
‘Mortuary Hour’
Cartoon – Animator, flying saucers
The British Well-Basically Club
Cartoon – Algon opening
Prices on the planet Algon
-5 E. Henry Tripshaw's Disease
+
+5 E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease
Tudor jobs agency
Pornographic bookshop
Elizabethan pornography smugglers (Sir Philip Sydney)
Thripshaw's disease
Silly noises
Sherry-drinking vicar
+
6 Dennis Moore
‘Boxing Tonight’ – Jack Bodell v. Sir Kenneth Clark
Dennis Moore; Lupins
Off-Licence
Still More Dennis Moore
‘Prejudice’
-7 A Book at Bedtime
+
+7,l=26:41 A Book at Bedtime
‘A Book at Bedtime’: ‘Redgauntlet’
McKamikaze Scotsmen
No Time to Lose
Rival documentaries
‘Dad's Doctors’ (trail)
‘Dad's Pooves’ (trail)
-8 Grandstand
+
+8,l=26:30 Grandstand
Thames TV introduction
‘Light Entertainment Awards’: Dickie Attenborough
The Oscar Wilde sketch
Credits of the Year
The dirty vicar sketch
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!season 4
+
2 The Golden Age of Ballooning
Montgolfier Brothers
Cartoon – Montgolfier brothers wash each other
Louis XIV
George III
Zeppelin
+
4 Michael Ellis
Department store; Buying an ant
At home with the ant and other pets; Documentary on ants
Poetry reading (ants)
Toupée
Different endings
+
5 Light Entertainment War
‘Up Your Pavement’
RAF banter
Show-jumping (musical)
Newsflash (Germans)
‘When Does a Dream Begin?’ (song)
+
6 Hamlet
Bogus psychiatrists
‘Nationwide’: police helmets
Dentists, live from Epsom
Queen Victoria Handicap
Match of the Day results
+
7 Mr Neutron
Post box ceremony
Mr Neutron arrives
Bombings
Mrs S.C.U.M.
‘Conjuring Today’
+
8 Party Political Broadcast
‘Most Awful Family in Britain’
Icelandic Honey Week
A doctor whose patients are stabbed by his nurse
Brigadier and bishop
Cartoon – Opera Singer
- Appeal on behalf of extremely rich peple
+ Appeal on behalf of extremely rich people
The man who finishes other people's sentences
David Attenborough: the walking tree of Dahomey
The batsmen of the Kalahari: cricket match (assegais)
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